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A tribunal has put on hold an EPA notice that would require a council to disclose information on a contaminated site that it owns to developers proposing to build a hotel next door.

In a judgment that might yet be tested in the High Court, an appeal court has upheld a decision that found liquidators were liable for the costs of cleaning up a major waste dump.

In a preliminary skirmish, an appeal court has ruled in favour of the former executives of a company that was fined $4.5 million for wilfully causing serious environmental harm.

A company's Remediation Action Plan for managing asbestos contamination will satisfy the requirements of OHS improvement notices, a tribunal has ruled, but EPA concerns are yet to be resolved.

The developer of a proposed housing estate has been ordered to remove PFAS-contaminated paper pulp that was applied to the site as a soil conditioner.

EPA Victoria has conceded to the state's Supreme Court that it treated a company part-owned by Orica unfairly in its decision-making on a contaminated site.

Waste company Bingo Industries has again failed to convince a court that people disposing of waste at its facilities are partly to blame if it is found to owe damages to a construction company over allegedly contaminated aggregate.

Three years after Brisbane District Court fined Linc Energy $4.5 million, the same court is to hear five charges against its former chief executive.

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• Sydney Water fined $175,500 for pollution
  
• Fake asbestos disposal dockets lead to community service order
  
• NSW canvasses views on contaminated sites policy

• EPA releases key contaminated sites guidance
  
• Waste to energy company loses tribunal battle over court costs
  
• EPA secures first arrest warrant over polluter flight risk concerns
  
• Tribunal draws on Cher and Rolling Stones in solar farm dispute